12/18/10

CLITORIS GROUP was a starting point to VAGINA CROCHETING, and there is no end to it in sight. People were invited in “I dare you to say clitoris”-group 2009 in Facebook, and since 2010 women have gathered together to crochet vaginas.

The concept is created by two visual artists TAINA KONTIO and SARI HAKALA, and the body of work is realized as community arts practise with women of all ages.

Women started claiming their sexuality back to themselves from the media, pornographic industry and church, this way reducing the undignified stigma, which has corrupted this vital area of female existence.

In crocheting events women could trust their secrets, nightmares, fears and joys to other women. Various shapes and sizes of colorful female genitals were introduced, everything from bold bushes and hilarious pussypies to grim cunts, timid twats and protective vaginas, as their stories were heard and appreciated.

The curiosity, sometimes fear, towards these events was great amongst women of all ages and need to join in and claim the owners rights of their own sexuality was evident.

Vaginas and related video and sound work were exhibited in Gallery 12, Kuopio, Finland. READ MORE-

as you all know by now, THE SPOTLIGHT will be closing their doors permanently the first week of janurary- 2011.ANTEBELLUM gallery is planing a SPOTLIGHT ART EXHIBITION.. stay tuned for date & details..an amazing artwork by $EX ARTISE

this is a repost-i always thought carter's presidency was underrated. his legacy as a former president, (39th) that weighs in on issues and is part of the democratic discourse is well intact-Former President Jimmy Carter said in a recent interview that the nation's tolerance of gays had grown to a level that could facilitate the election of a gay president.

"I think the entire population has come tremendous strides forward in dealing with the issue of gays," Carter said in an interview from Big Think. "I dunno about next election, but I think in the near future, because step by step we have realized that this issue of homosexuality has the same adverse and progressive elements as when we dealt with the race issue."READ MORE-

The county sheriff says that a 26-year-old black man found hanged from an oak tree in Greenwood, Miss., apparently committed suicide, but the president of the local NAACP challenges that explanation and says the group will monitor developments in the case.

Frederick Jermaine Carter, whose body was found Friday in North Greenwood, had a history of mental illness, was on medication and had a pattern of wandering away, says Leflore County Sheriff Ricky Banks.Carter, who lived in neighboring Sunflower County, was helping his stepfather paint a building Wednesday. The stepfather went to get tools and when he returned, Carter had wandered off, Banks says.

"That really didn't bother the stepdaddy," Banks says. "It had happened so many times before. He's a mental patient and was taking medication. He had wandered to Florida, to Arkansas."

After Carter was found Friday, Banks says he investigated the scene and found no evidence that anyone else was there. "I didn't see any indication of anybody else being in that area, going from physical evidence and the general tracks," Banks says. "He had on a sort of new pair of tennis shoes that had a most distinct track with an unusual design."

"We tracked him where he walked in there," he says. "No other tracks followed his tracks. He walked in there by himself. There were no signs around the tree where he was hanging."

Banks says a man who lives nearby saw Carter walking toward the site, in a field between a levee and the Yazoo River. "He talked to him, asked him what he was doing down there. He said, 'Well, I'm just walking.' He wouldn't talk to him."

Banks says his finding on a cause of death is not final. He is awaiting autopsy and toxicology reports. "They'll look for bruising on the body, to see if it looks like somebody might have scuffled with him or whatever," he says. "I didn't find any evidence of that."

The FBI's Jackson field office is monitoring the situation. "The FBI has been advised of the situation in Leflore County," spokeswoman Deborah Madden says in a statement. "We stand by to provide whatever assistance is necessary to ensure the integrity of the investigation."

State Rep. Willie Perkins, a Democrat from Greenwood and president of the Leflore County branch of the NAACP, says that group also "will keep a high scrutiny and watch on any investigative report regarding what was the cause of death."

"There are a lot of concerns there, No. 1 that this individual could not have (hanged) himself without the assistance of someone, if it's being declared a suicide," he says. "Why would someone from Sunflower County come to North Greenwood, the predominantly white housing area of Greenwood? Why would someone that far away come and hang themselves in North Greenwood by a river? That does not pass the smell test to me."

Another local elected official, state Sen. David Jordan, a Democrat, says the African-American community in Greenwood is "very much concerned."

"This is in a white wealthy area, and black people just don't go over there," he says. "There's not a single black that's talked to us who believes that he hanged himself."

Jordan, who is African-American, suggests there is a historical underpinning for blacks being suspicious about the specter of violence against them: Greenwood is about 12 miles from Money, Miss., site of one of the most infamous lynchings in U.S. history. In August 1955, Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Chicago boy visiting relatives for the summer, was abducted and killed after he allegedly made remarks to a white woman.

"We're not drawing any conclusions," Jordan says. "We're skeptical, and rightfully we should be, given our history. We can't take this lightly. We just have to wait and see."

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12/14/10

this is the beginning of the debate of free speech of the future. WIKILEAKS releases supposed top secret files, emails & videos on a regular basis. as of today- december 14th, founder JULIAN ASSANGE is in jail on a trumped up rape charge. MICHAEL MOORE has announced he will post bail.

WikiLeaks is an international new media non-profit organisation that publishes submissions of otherwise unavailable documents from anonymous news sources and news leaks. Its website, launched in 2006, is run by The Sunshine Press.Within a year of its launch, the site claimed a database that had grown to more than 1.2 million documents. The organisation has described itself as having been founded by Chinese dissidents, as well as journalists, mathematicians, and start-up company technologists from the United States, Taiwan, Europe, Australia, and South Africa. Julian Assange, an Australian Internet activist, is generally described as its director.In June 2009, WikiLeaks and Julian Assange won Amnesty International's UK Media Award (in the category "New Media") for the 2008 publication of "Kenya: The Cry of Blood – Extra Judicial Killings and Disappearances", a report by the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights about police killings in Kenya. In May 2010, the New York Daily News listed WikiLeaks first in a ranking of "websites that could totally change the news". Russia extended its support to WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange by issuing a statement which suggested that Assange should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, in the aftermath of the United States diplomatic cables leak. Julian Assange was named the Readers' Choice for Time magazine's Person of the Year award for 2010.In April 2010, WikiLeaks posted video from a 2007 incident in which Iraqi civilians and journalists were killed by U.S. forces, on a website called Collateral Murder. In July of the same year, WikiLeaks released Afghan War Diary, a compilation of more than 76,900 documents about the War in Afghanistan not previously available for public review. In October, the group released a package of almost 400,000 documents called the Iraq War Logs in coordination with major commercial media organisations. In November 2010, WikiLeaks began releasing U.S. State department diplomatic cables.WikiLeaks was originally launched as a user-editable wiki site, but has progressively moved towards a more traditional publication model, and no longer accepts either user comments or edits. The site is available on multiple servers and different domain names following a number of denial-of-service attacks and its severance from different Domain Name System (DNS) providers.